Residential and commercial building

Reinforced concrete pillar structure with infill hollow masonry. The entire building has a basement. It includes a five-story front street section, a three-story back courtyard section, and a two-story central connecting section. Above the street section and the back courtyard, there are attics with laundry rooms. A passage runs through the ground floor from Jánská street across the courtyard of the foundation house No. 10 to Freedom Square. This passage eases pedestrian communication in the tight outlet of Masaryk street to Freedom Square. The building has 2 staircases and 1 elevator. On the ground floor, there are 11 shops facing Jánská street and the passage, the mezzanine has office rooms, and the upper floors have three-room, two-room apartments, and single rooms. The building is centrally heated, with warm water for the apartments and low-pressure steam for shops and offices. The apartments are equipped with gas stoves and Junkers appliances for hot water preparation. The enclosed space of the building amounts to 20,000 m3, with construction costs of 200 CZK per 1 m3. Construction began on June 18, 1930, and was roughly completed in August, with occupancy permission granted on February 18, 1931. The construction was carried out by the company Ing. Artur Eisler in Brno.

Jan Víšek